MIAMI - A security checkpoint reopened Sunday more than 16 hours after six federal workers became ill in the fourth similar episode in a month at Miami International Airport.
The six Transportation Security Administration employees complained of vomiting Saturday. Two were taken to a hospital, but there were no serious injuries or aftereffects, said TSA spokeswoman Lauren Stover. The employees' names were not released.
A paramedic was stationed at the checkpoint Sunday, and the airport planned to perform tests Monday to see if the source of the problem could be identified, she said.
No flights were affected, but hundreds of American Airlines passengers were diverted to another checkpoint for flights using Concourse D.
Immigrant wills most of savings to U.S. Treasury
WEST PALM BEACH - Most people do whatever they can to keep their money away from the Internal Revenue Service. Not so with Maria Woods, a German immigrant with a strong passion for her adopted country.
When Woods died in September at age 80, she left 70 percent of her estate to the U.S. Treasury as a way of showing her gratitude to the nation that took her in. The total wasn't significant - in her final years, medical costs had shrunk the one-time $500,000 estate to about $98,000 - but friends said the principle was more important than the principal.
"When she told me she was going to leave her money to the IRS, I thought, "Oh, God,"' said friend Pat Dooley. "She had no idea she was giving the fox all the chickens and the chicken house."
After making small bequests to friends, the rest of Woods' estate went to the Arthritis Foundation to help find a cure for an ailment that disabled her.
Woods immigrated to the United States in 1959 and became a citizen 11 years later.
"She told me this country has given her everything she has and she wanted to give some back," said her attorney, Joseph Karp.
